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Show v Wingovers "ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT FROM THE DELTA AIRPORT" DICK MORRISON NEW ARRIVAL . . . Mr. and Mrs. Art Rose announce the birth of a IVi lb. baby girl April 25, in Salt Lake City. Mother and daughter are at the Holy Cross Hospital, doing very well. SOLOS OUT . . . Ron Morley had the thrill of making mak-ing his first solo flight last Thursday Thurs-day morning. MUNDY THROUGH FRIDAY . . . Bill Mundy, big gas and oil man of Fillmore, sailed into town in a new V-8 Chrysler last Friday noon, feelin' high and happy and wanting want-ing an airplane ride. Accustomed to carrying out Bill's orders, from seven year's past employment, I poured him into the back seat of the Aeronca and aired him right back home, while Grant Callister piloted the car. CEILING INDEFINITE . . . Communicator Don Bothwell, who came to Delta recently from Fulda, Minn., has spent some little time at a CAA station in Umiat, Alaska, away up above the Arctic circle. He. says there is no comparison betwteen Delta weather and Umiat weather; but that doesn't mean he finds Delta weather ideal. To his way of thinking it's an open question whether Delta weather is balmy or "balmy". Last Saturday, for instance, he had to report that visibility was obscured by dust while it was raining, and again that there was an indefinite ceiling at 4000 ft. with scattered clouds at 2000. Sensible Sen-sible or not, that's the way it was. Furthermore, Don doesn't take to the use of ceiling balloons for determining vertical visibility in the daytime. He told Nate Ward he is accustomed to using the ceiling ceil-ing light all the time. (At Delta air port, balloons which rise about 500 ft. per minute are used to determine the ceiling in the daytime, day-time, while the vertical beam searchlight sea-rchlight is used at night.) This was too much for Ward "How on earth could you use the ceiling light in the daytime?" as-Nate. as-Nate. "There wasn't any daytime while I was at Umiat," replied Don. "It was just one long winter night.". Which just goes to show that there may be something "balmy" about Umiat weather, too. |